Hey, it's Brian, back with another episode for those of us getting an early start on the Christmas season.

We're just about halfway through October, so I'm back with another spooky story to get into the Christmas spirit

as we try to revive that old Victorian tradition of ghost stories for Christmas.

That's something my friends at Bibli Oasis have been doing for the past several years,

as every year they put out a new collection of stories republished and decorated and illustrated

by the acclaimed cartoonist known only as Seth.

Today's ghost story is more on the ghost side than the Christmas side, and it's not quite

as spooky as others I've read here,. It's actually somewhat on the sentimental side.

It's about a man who makes a chance purchase at a curio shop

only to find out that it's worth much more than he bargained for

and that he bought it under ghostly circumstances.

Light a candle, pour a cup of something cozy,

and snuggle up under your favorite blanket as we listen

to Lady Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop.

Peter Woods' executors found their task a very easy one. He had left his affairs in perfect order. The only surprise

yielded by his methodical writing table was a sealed envelope on which was written,

Not wishing to be bothered by well-meaning research societies, I have never shown the enclosed to

anyone. But after my death, all are welcome to read what, to the best of my knowledge, is a true

story. The manuscript, which bore a date three years previous to the death of the writer, was as

follows. I have long wished to record an experience of my youth. I won't attempt any explanation.

I draw no conclusions. I merely narrate certain events.

One foggy evening, at the end of a day of enforced idleness in my chambers, I had recently been called to the bar,

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